Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f0TNHq710174 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:17:52 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0TNIc724679 . for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:18:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C08A49.B3CA5000" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0TNHp704148 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:17:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA18651 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:17:50 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0TNHo704141 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:17:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.89DDD614@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 0:17:48 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 484874 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:17:46 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14777 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:17:45 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA12552 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:17:46 +0100 Received: from plmsc.psu.edu (raman.plmsc.psu.edu [128.118.156.124]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0TNHjY25632 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:17:46 +0100 (MET) Received: (from boris@localhost) by plmsc.psu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA17255; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:07:37 -0500 In-Reply-To: <14965.53535.903052.219374@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> (message from Frank Mittelbach on Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:22:55 +0100) Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: default font encoding Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:07:37 +0100 Message-ID: <200101292307.SAA17255@plmsc.psu.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Boris Veytsman" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3662 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08A49.B3CA5000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:22:55 +0100 > From: Frank Mittelbach > > > i nevertheless begin to wonder if we should change the default font = encoding > from OT1 to T1 so that more people get proper hyphenation without the = need to > say > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > I'd suggest to postpone this until free EC postscript fonts are available. Many people use LaTeX for pdf output rather than as a pretext to kill some trees, you know. -- Good luck -Boris http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris/ ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08A49.B3CA5000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: default font encoding

> = Date:         Mon, 29 Jan 2001 = 21:22:55 +0100
> From: Frank Mittelbach = <frank.mittelbach@LATEX-PROJECT.ORG>
>

>
> i nevertheless begin to wonder if we should = change the default font encoding
> from OT1 to T1 so that more people get proper = hyphenation without the need to
> say
>
>   \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>

I'd suggest to postpone this until free EC postscript = fonts are
available. Many people use LaTeX for pdf output = rather than as a
pretext to kill some trees, you know.

--
Good luck

-Boris
http://www.plmsc.psu.edu/~boris= /

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